Marriage Market to Be Hosted by Whitney Cummings on FOX
FOX is flipping the script on dating with its new series Marriage Market, where real singles ready for marriage relinquish total control of their love lives to their closest family members, who marry them off at a market like no other!
From FOX Entertainment Studios, Marriage Market is an original, FOX-owned unscripted series slated for FOX’s 2026-27 Season. The series will be hosted by actress, comedian, and podcaster Whitney Cummings.
Marriage Market welcomes singles – who are officially over swiping, ghosting, and endless first dates – into an actual Marriage Market, where they’re up for trying something radical… putting their love lives in the hands of family members that know them best and risking it all for one shot at forever – in an arranged marriage.
Filled with humor, heart, heartbreak, and unpredictable outcomes, Marriage Market is a one-of-a-kind, immersive matchmaking experience where families come together with one goal in mind: helping their single family member find a meaningful, lasting match. Inside this vibrant, real-world setting, families meet, connect, and advocate for their loved ones as they search for a perfect partner.
The rules are simple. When two families believe they’ve found a match, their singles are introduced and engaged on the spot – with the ultimate goal of making it to the altar. From there, the couples and their families move in together, navigating real-life compatibility, big personalities, and even bigger expectations.
At any point, each newly matched single’s family can decide they’ve found “the one” or send their single loved one back into the Marriage Market for another chance at finding love.
“Marriage Market gives all new meaning to shotgun wedding, turning dating on its head with one of the most extreme marketplace spectacles you’ve ever seen,” said Michael Thorn, President of FOX Television Network. “Watching families come together to make these matches is deeply relatable and wildly emotional, giving this distinctive concept all the ingredients of a signature FOX unscripted series.”
“Marriage Market is a bold new format that reflects our strategy of creating distinctive IP that takes the kind of big and culturally relevant risks that viewers love,” said Allison Wallach, Head of Unscripted, FOX Entertainment Studios. “We’ve taken a timeless idea and reimagined it in a modern, high-stakes way with the families in full control and the talented, always funny Whitney Cummings presiding over it all as host.”
Marriage Market is produced by FOX Entertainment Studios and will be distributed worldwide by FOX Entertainment Global. The series is executive produced by Alycia Rossiter and John Carr, with Rossiter serving as showrunner.
